6/11/2023 0 Comments The other americans reviews![]() ![]() But rather than setting out to draft a concrete novel of ideas, it was an intimate experience that sparked the novel’s origin. With taunt suspense, Lalami uses the varied experiences of her characters to speak for the ways in which one incident offers a nuanced snapshot of our troubling relationship with the idea of “homeland.” It’s a rare novel that manages to cover such fraught territory while also reading like a true whodunit, yet Lalami successfully weaves together these tricky elements. ![]() When Driss, the owner of a diner in Yucca Valley (a small town in the Mojave) and an American immigrant from Morocco, is killed in a hit and run, the unexpected act of brutality ricochets through the town. Told from the point of view of nine separate narrators, Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami’s new novel, The Other Americans, considers the way in which a community is affected in the wake of a violent act, offering a look at the charged emotional and political climate of post-9/11 America. Laila Lalami, author of The Other Americans. ![]()
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